What Killed Me Was My Demon Brother novel
I covered all the expenses, but Jeffery either hit or scolded me the entire trip.
Jeffery screamed, "Get lost, I don't want you around. You're a jinx, you'll ruin everything for me."
Everyone thought Jeffery was just being unreasonable, but not long after, he actually fell into the Main River during the dragon boat race, leading to a lung infection.
We immediately canceled the trip and returned home. On the plane, Jeffery was burning with fever, barely conscious, yet still yelled angrily at me.
Jeffery cried out, "Help! Mandy wants to kill me. Grandma, save me!"
That night, Jeffery mysteriously died in the hospital room.
Everyone accused me, saying I was the one who killed Jeffery.
Fred broke my leg, and Jessica directly pushed me toward a speeding truck. I was run over and died gruesomely on the street.
But I was reborn on the day I took my family on the trip abroad.
*****
"I don't want Mandy. Shes not allowed in my house. Shes just an outsider."
The moment I regained consciousness, Jeffery's disgusted voice pulled me out of the haze.
Fred and Jessica heard this and just thought the child was speaking nonsense, paying no attention.
But seeing Jeffery's look of complete resistance, I felt a chill all over. The excruciating pain of being hit and crushed by a truck in my previous life was still vivid, filling my heart with fear.
Jessica looked at Jeffery and said dotingly, "Jeffery is right. Mandy will get married in a few years, and then she'll belong to someone else's family."
I stood quietly on the side, not arguing.
Jeffery, upon hearing Jessica's words, immediately threw himself on the ground, rolling around and screaming curses.
Jeffery cried and shouted, "I don't want her, kick her out now, she can't appear in front of me. She'll kill me, I'm not lying, Grandma."
He lay on the ground, his face flushed red, his eyes filled with fear and disgust as he looked at me.
Fred noticed the astonished gazes around him and felt utterly humiliated, so he sternly scolded, "Get up right now! How can you talk about your sister like that?"
Jeffery, noticing Fred's harsher tone, immediately turned his gaze to Jessica, who adored him.
Jeffery said aggrievedly, "I'm really not lying, Mandy is a jinx, she will definitely ruin me."
"She just thinks Grandma only loves me, and she always warns me that everything in the house will be hers in the future."
Jessica immediately looked up and reproached me disapprovingly, "How could you say such things to Jeffery!"
Seeing Jessica's blatant favoritism, I felt that all my sincerity towards them in my previous life had been in vain. In my past life, it was my own grandmother who personally pushed me into the abyss of death.
At this moment, Fred frowned and commanded, "Enough, there's a dragon boat race on the Main River today. Take Jeffery to have a look and work on building some sibling bond."
I sighed obediently and reached out to grab Jeffery, ready to take him over. Just then, Jeffery suddenly slapped my hand away forcefully, his eyes red.
Jeffery roared, "Get away! I don't want you to take me there. You'll push me into the river and drown me!"
Jeffery's heart-wrenching cries immediately made Jessica nervous. She quickly pulled him into her arms, comforting him while watching me warily.
Jessica questioned, "What exactly did you do to Jeffery? Did you secretly hit him?"
I stood aside, glancing at the bustling dragon boat race outside the hotel.
There were five minutes left until the race started at 12, and ten minutes until Jeffery's inexplicable fall into the water in his previous life.
In my previous life, I followed Fred's advice and took Jeffery alone to the Main River to watch the race, trying to bond with him and be a good sister.
As a result, Jeffery broke free from my hand and disappeared without a trace. It wasn't until a commotion arose downstream of the Main River, and someone pulled out a barely conscious boy, that I realized it was Jeffery.
Later, due to his severe injuries, the police suspected child abuse and reviewed all nearby surveillance, but found nothing. In just five minutes, Jeffery vanished from my side and ended up barely alive downstream of the Main River.
I lowered my head in thought for a moment but still refused Fred's suggestion.
I said to Fred, "Dad, you should take Jeffery instead. I really don't feel confident about his safety if I take him alone."
Fred glared at me after hearing this and said impatiently, "It's just taking him to watch a dragon boat race! What's so hard about that? Do you have a problem with Jeffery or are you unhappy with me?"
After saying that, he stormed back to the hotel room without looking back. I turned to look at Jessica.
I persuaded, "Grandma, there are too many people today. If a stampede happens, it would be terrible. Let's not go and head back to the hotel instead."
I added, "After all, Jeffery is the only boy in the family."
Jessica looked down at Jeffery, who clearly wanted to watch the race.
She hesitated and said, "It's just a dragon boat race. We can watch from a distance. It's such a waste to stay in the hotel after coming all the way to Germany."
I looked at Jeffery, a worried expression on my face.
I said, "Better safe than sorry. If something really happens to Jeffery, our family line would end, wouldn't it?"
This sentence hit Jessica's weak spot. In her eyes, only a grandson could carry on the family lineage.
Seeing her waver, I immediately pulled Jessica and Jeffery back to the room.
I could clearly feel the small hand in my left palm pinch me hard, his palm covered in cold sweat.
I sneered inwardly, thinking, "Id like to see how he plans to frame me without going to the dragon boat race or the Main River."
After returning to the room, Jeffery, sitting on the sofa, kept staring out the window, restless. Before long, he ran to Jessica, crying and acting spoiled.
Jeffery pleaded, "Grandma, I want to watch the dragon boat race. I just have to go."
Seeing him cry, Jessica immediately became anxious.
She said, "Well... Mandy, why don't you take Jeffery to have a look? Just be extra careful."
I stood aside and clearly saw that Jeffery in Jessica's arms wasn't crying at all but was glaring at me sideways.
I thought disdainfully, "Would I really be outsmarted by a kid?"
I turned on the TV and switched to the live broadcast channel of the dragon boat race.
I said to Jeffery, "Look, this TV screen is so big, much clearer than watching it live."
Jeffery, seeing this, started throwing a tantrum and shouted, "I don't want to watch this stupid TV, I want to go there! Or I'll tell Dad you bullied me."
I snorted lightly and said, "Do as you like, but you're not stepping out of this room today."
My tough attitude instantly made Jeffery's face turn red with anger. He screamed hoarsely, "All you do is bully me! I hate you! Get out of my house!"
He lay on the ground crying and yelling, and before long, he started coughing violently, gasping for air as if he had respiratory alkalosis.
Looking at his noisy behavior, I couldn't help but frown. I thought, "He used to be so cute and clingy when he was little. How did staying with Grandma in the countryside for a few years turn him into such a brat?"
Jessica saw him gasping for air as he cried and quickly picked him up, anxiously saying, "Jeffery, breathe slowly. If anything happens to you, it'll be the death of me."
Seeing my indifferent attitude, Jeffery lay on the ground and started rolling his eyes, looking like he was about to faint. This completely panicked Jessica.
Jessica quickly said, "Alright, alright, I'll go watch the game with you, and Mandy will come too." Saying that, she went to the bedroom to grab her bag.
I took the opportunity to go to the bathroom and locked the hotel room door on my way.
But when I came out after washing my hands, the living room was empty. Seeing Jessica come out of the bedroom with a bag on her back and a similarly pale face, my heart sank.
I realized Jeffery had gone missing again!
This suite only has a bedroom, a living room, and a bathroom, but now, apart from Jessica and me, there's no sign of Jeffery at all.
While I was in the bathroom, I clearly didnt hear the sound of the door opening!
I rushed to the door and found the safety chain still securely latched, instantly shocked.
If Jeffery really went out, how could he latch the safety chain from the outside?
Jessica and I, both anxious, turned the entire room upside down but couldnt find any trace of Jeffery.
I muttered to myself, "This is absolutely impossible. How on earth did he do it?"
Thinking about what happened after Jeffery's disappearance in my previous life, cold sweat broke out on my forehead, my spine chilled, and I panicked, utterly at a loss.
Jessica immediately called the police. I dashed out of the room and ran to the dragon boat race site as fast as I could, frantically searching along the Main River bank, tears streaming down my face.
When I returned to the room in a daze, the police had already arrived and were trying to comfort Jessica, who was crying so hard she could barely breathe. But she was too emotional to explain the situation clearly.
I explained everything that had just happened to the police in detail. Child disappearance is already a serious case in Germany, let alone we are American tourists. The police immediately sent someone to retrieve the surveillance footage.
However, the surveillance footage left me utterly shocked. It showed that ever since Jessica and I brought Jeffery into the room, the door had never been opened again!
My mind went blank.
Immediately after, the events following Jeffery's disappearance in my previous life replayed. Half an hour later, the police were notified that a drowned child had been found downstream of the Main River and had been rushed to the nearest hospital for emergency treatment.
The commotion in the room alerted Fred, who lived next door. He walked over in confusion, and upon learning about his son's disappearance, he flew into a rage. He kicked me, knocking me to the ground. My head hit the bedpost, and blood started seeping out.
Fred yelled angrily, "I told you to take good care of Jeffery! What the hell were you doing? You can't even watch over a child, you useless piece of crap!"
At this moment, Jessica, who was sobbing uncontrollably, suddenly remembered what Jeffery had said a few hours ago and glared at me, questioning angrily.
Jessica questioned, "Jeffery said back then that you would get him killed! Was it you?"
Fred immediately remembered this as well and nodded firmly at the police.
In an instant, I went from being a victim's family member to a suspect.
The police quickly retrieved the hotel lobby's surveillance footage, which clearly recorded Jeffery saying that I would harm him.
I stared in shock at everything happening before me, shaking my head in disbelief. I murmured, "No, it wasn't me..."
Before I could explain, Fred raised his hand and slapped me, angrily yelling, "You wicked woman! How dare you harm your own brother."
I turned my head and fell to the side, ignoring the pain on my face, my mind racing, feeling that something was off.
I hurriedly defended myself, "No! It really wasn't me! The surveillance caught everythingI never left the room, and I was with Grandma the whole time!"
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